article thumbnail

Have You Trained Your Replacement?

Persuasive Powerhouse

Whether they are looking within their own team, the broader organization, or outside the company, a good leader always has a notion of who will be sitting in their chair next. They might have a life event that leads them to leave the company. Again, I was responsible for training someone to replace me at a moment’s notice.

Training 257
article thumbnail

T.O.I.L.E.T. Training™ -- a breakthrough system to improve workplace learning

Great Leadership By Dan

As a follow-up to my last post about getting smarter about how we invest our limited training budgets. Training System™ -- a new platform that promises to reshape how training is delivered in modern organizations. In this time-stressed environment, training is often viewed as a luxury that employers can’t afford.

Training 225
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

50 Years of Diversity Training – How Far Have We Really Come?

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Diversity training formally debuted in the 1960s to ensure companies were policy compliant and protecting themselves. That’s according to the history of diversity training timeline from Elizabeth Lisican of Diversity Executive. 1979: McDonald’s Corp. 1979: McDonald’s Corp.

Diversity 222
article thumbnail

Remote Work Revolution: Mastering the Challenges and Opportunities in 2024

N2Growth Blog

I was fortunate to work in corporate recruiting for a global technology company in 2008 when the idea of a remote workforce was embraced. Embracing these fundamentals helps to develop a company’s resilience amidst rapidly evolving workplace technologies and maintain seamless work dynamics in a virtual setting.

article thumbnail

Great Leaders Say “Yes!”

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Today’s post is by Chris Dyer, author of The Power of Company Culture ( CLICK HERE to get your copy). Back in 2008-2009, when we were all struggling with the great recession of our age, I was also struggling with my company culture. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

article thumbnail

The Loneliness Epidemic: Is Your Network Your Net Worth?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

One of the first events I participated in when I joined TELUS in late 2008 was the annual Retirees Holiday Lunch. Despite its current-day international prowess across multiple business lines, TELUS started in 1904 as a British Columbia–based, publicly run telecommunications company.

article thumbnail

6 Ways Technology Can Help Companies Innovate Out of the Coronavirus Downturn

Strategy Driven

As our world deals with the COVID-19 pandemic, business leaders must understand that it’s going to be technology that determines which companies survive and build success from this unprecedented event. As part of a broader risk reduction exercise, we will see companies make moves to build more robust supply chains. Social apps.